Specifically July "54 thru Dec. "57. 76 cars were sealed in a 2 &1/2 yr
period. Foreign roads numbered 25 with 37 cars: 4 from PRR one was plywood
for Des Moines); 3 ea from RI, IC 1 reefer with fruit and a boxcar of
washing machines), NP & C&O (1 with bakery goods from Des Moines and 1 with
paper from Hoerner Paper Co.); two ea from NKP (1 with paper for Des
Moines), C&NW, GN (both wallboard loads), CGW (1 load was calendars & other
was oil to Mt. Ayr, IA) & Santa Fe (1 with wallboard for Chariton) and one
ea from Erie, SOO (groceries to Super-Value in Des Moines), SL-SF, RDG
(lumber to Agency, IA), SAL (refrigerators to Des Moines), Milw (John Deere
implements), BAR, Southern, Louisiana & Arkansas (wallboard to Humestown),
UP, NYC and Wabash (beans from Des Moines).
Private owners & RR reefer lines comprised 11 companies with 24 cars:
Morrell had 5; St. Louis Refrig had 4; ART had 3 including 2 hauling cheese
from Thorp, Wis to Kansas City with some being offloaded @ Morrell's
[cheddarwurst ingredient?]; 2 ea from URTX, NWX & National (MNX #2198 with
Kosher meat loaded on C&S & an NX) and one ea from PFE, FGE, GAEX (50' steel
box), Santa Fe Refrig Exp. and DSDX (Dairy Shippers Dispatch that had a
heater repaired by BREX employee B.C. Sheets). One of the URTX was same as
2 of the ART's - cheese being partially unloaded @ Morrell.
The Q had 16 cars but 2 were express boxes (ex-troop kitchen) 8756 with mdse
from Ottumwa frt house & 8634; one was MoW (214200) and one "diesel"
(written as such) #161, an F-3, which had seal removed from speed recorder
on 10-31-56 to ck mileage. Freight cars included box 33047 which had seal
broken due to derailment on May 12, 1955, train #61; 22840 with timplate for
San Jose & 22858 with the same for Sacramento; 45995 with Deere implements
for Albia; 46660 with company mat'ls and 91183, a 45' piggyback flat
carrying a Burlington trailer that needed resealing on train #71.
Gerald A. Edgar
230 W. 5th St.
Garner, IA 50438-1404
(641) 923-2573
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